About February 6
February 6, 2025 is the 37th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 376 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 6
- 1685 –James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
- 1788 –Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1806 –Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- 1815 –New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- 1819 –Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1833 –Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
- 1843 –The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1862 –American Civil War: The U.S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennesseein the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1934 –Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
- 1942 –World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1959 –At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1976 –In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1981 –The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
- 1989 –The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 1996 –Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 1998 –Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 2000 –Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
- 2027 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
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